“The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.” GovernmentCenturyDangerousIllusionDemocraticNotionCorporateCorporationsCornerstonesMystiqueBalancing Act Book:Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It Source: Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It
“Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.” MeanStillsStoriesGovernmentAgeTodayPoliticalFatherIndividualSocialWealthResponsibilityRightsCenturyIdealsRootsBillsDemocraticSubstanceFoundingLicensePolitical SystemsBill Of RightsRobbersGildedGilded AgeRobber Baron Author:Bill Moyers
“The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.” IfsAmericaSimpleCenturyKingsDemocraticLegacy21st CenturyLuther Author:Cornel West
“Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.” PeopleIfsGovernmentDemocracyCenturyHabitDisciplineDemocraticSevenDecadesBritainAcquireDemocratic GovernmentTraverse Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick
“The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century!” WorldPowerfulPartyCenturyInstitutionsSlaveryDemocraticMost PowerfulSurvived21st CenturyDemocratic PartyEnglish Speaking Author:Sean Hannity
“[The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.” PartyHalfCenturyRacismDemocraticIncrediblesDemocratic PartyInstitutional Racism Author:Sean Hannity
“Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children.When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?” YearsChildrenGovernmentSchoolPartyCenturyPlanetsCoupleRacismYears AgoInstitutionsSlaveryDemocraticSlaveTreatedIndianApologizingPotatoesDemocratic PartyFamineAbolitionBlairAbolition Of SlaveryPotato FamineCanadian Government Author:Sean Hannity
“When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?” PartyCenturyPlanetsRacismInstitutionsSlaveryDemocraticSlaveApologizingDemocratic PartyAbolitionAbolition Of Slavery Author:Mark Steyn
“Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.” PeopleKnowsIdeasSeemsEyeAmericaMovingSocialHurtPartyCreativeProgressCenturyMovementRepublicanThousandDemocraticCommittedMysteriousOppositionInternalsPropositionsTwentieth CenturyDemocratic PartyMoving InSocial ProgressCombustion Author:Hubert H. Humphrey
“For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have seen capitalism as intrinsically unstable, full of contradictions that will lead eventually to its collapse. Its supporters see it as the best way to allocate resources and rewards. Some even hint that the democratic capitalistic society is not just a phase in the historical evolution of economic systems but its ultimate end.” WayTwoEndsEconomicCenturyEvolutionPoliticianCapitalismResourcesUltimateHistoricalDemocraticCriticsRewardsBest WayContradictionScholarCollapsePhasesSupporterHintsUnstableProminentEconomic Systems Author:Raghuram Rajan
“What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.” Has BeensHalfEffectsCenturyDemocraticArguingEmpiresFifthAthenians Author:Moses Finley
“The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished in 19th century America better than 19th century Europe is because you had more equal distribution of wealth in America.” ThinkingReasonBigsAmericaWealthLevelsDemocracyCenturyEqualEuropeIdealsDemocraticInequalityReason WhyRelatedDistributionModerates19th CenturyDistribution Of WealthDemocratic Ideals Author:Thomas Piketty